Details:

• Corporate Creators:
  National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Human Factors in Air Traffic Control Automation
• Contributors:
  Wickens, Christopher D. ; Mavor, Anne S. ; McGee, James P.

  Wickens, Christopher D. ; Mavor, Anne S. ; McGee, James P. Less -
• Subject/TRT Terms:
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  Air Traffic Control Automation Aviation Safety Human Factors National Airspace System Recommendations Studies United States
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403345
• Resource Type:
  In Book
• Right Statement:
  National Academy of Sciences
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00742299
• ISBN:
  0309056373
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Academy Press
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-AVIATION-Air Traffic Control;NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Human Factors;
• Abstract:
  The nation's air traffic control system is responsible for managing a complex
  
  mixture of air traffic from commercial, general, corporate, and military
  
  aviation. Despite a strong safety record, the system does suffer occasional
  
  serious disruption, often the result of outdated and failed equipment. When
  
  equipment failures occur, system safety relies on the skills of controllers and
  
  pilots. Under these circumstances, safety is maintained by reducing the number
  
  of aircraft in the air. Pressures to provide the capacity to handle a greater
  
  number of flights in the future and to maintain high levels of safety and
  
  efficiency have led to proposals to provide more reliable and powerful equipment
  
  and at the same time increase the level of automation in air traffic control
  
  facilities-that is, to use advances in technology to take over tasks that are
  
  currently performed by humans. Such proposals have raised concern that
  
  automation not compromise the safety or efficiency of the system by
  
  marginalizing the human controller's ability to provide the necessary backup
  
  when disruptions occur. The Panel on Human Factors in Air Traffic Control
  
  Automation was convened at the request of the Federal Aviation Administration
  
  (FAA) for the purposes of gaining an understanding of, and providing
  
  recommendations on, the human factors characteristics of the current air
  
  traffic control system, the national airspace system, and future automation
  
  alternatives in terms of the human's role in the system. The panel's charge
  
  divides the tasks into two phases. The first focuses on the current system and
  
  its development as a means to: (1) understand the complexities of and problems
  
  with the current air traffic control system that automation is intended to
  
  address; (2) describe the manner in which some levels of automation have already
  
  been implemented; and (3) provide a baseline of human factors knowledge as it
  
  relates to the functions of the air traffic controller in the system. The
  
  second phase is to assess future automation alternatives and the role of the
  
  human operator in ensuring safety and efficiency in the air traffic control
  
  system. This report provides the results of the panel's work during the first
  
  phase. The link in this record leads to the frontal material of the study,
  
  Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control. By clicking on the
  
  Document Homepage button at the end of the web page, the viewer is taken to a
  
  page which offers ordering information for the hardcopy book of the study (384p.)
  
  and a link to the left to a hypertext Table of Contents from which the viewer
  
  can select portions to read as desired on-line.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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